This runs on ActiveState Perl 5.10.0 as it is written, which is really a nice implementation for visualization of the problem space... :)

I tinkered with it a little, added a variable to count the number of moves. 10 disks were my limit, that solves fairly quickly. Never did get to the 21 disc version, I didn't want to wait that long. :)

However, one of the links published by dragonchild led me to this site:

where I found a short history of the tale, seems there are 64! discs, so the final solution works out to ~585 billion years or so, moving one disc a second...too much time for me to spend...but it was a very interesting exercise... ;>)

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